German prosecutors say 3 arrested in Netherlands in connection to $45 million cyber heist
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German prosecutors say three suspects in a global cyber-bank heist that netted some $45 million have been arrested in the Netherlands.
Duesseldorf prosecutors' spokesman Christoph Kumpa confirmed Der Spiegel magazine's report Friday that the three were arrested Tuesday in The Hague on a European arrest warrant from his office.
In December 2012 and February 2013, crime ring members in 27 countries allegedly used stolen prepaid MasterCard debit card numbers — whose limits hackers had raised — to withdraw the millions from ATM machines. Several have already been arrested worldwide and two already convicted in Duesseldorf.
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Spiegel reported one of the three arrested Tuesday is thought to have headed the German part of the heist, where some $2.44 million was stolen.
Dutch authorities had no immediate comment on extradition.